The city’s online crime map is back up and running. Here’s some of what it shows in Maple Leaf:
* More than 20 crimes were reported in the neighborhood in June. But since the crime map only got up and running this week, most of the incidents are just from the past few days.
* Although some reports of identity theft or burglaries are dated as far back as mid-month, noticeably absent from the map is the credit union robbery that occurred inside the Roosevelt Safeway on June 18. A robbery is reported at a convenience store on June 28 in the 1100 block of Roosevelt Way Northeast.
* Homes broken into and burglarized include one in the 10700 block of Roosevelt Way Northeast and one in the 1700 block of Northeast 113th Street.
* Stolen vehicles include a car from the 300 block of Northeast Thornton Place, a car from the 9800 block of Lake City Way Northeast, a car from the 800 block of Northeast 104th Street and a motorcycle from the 500 block of Northeast Northgate Way.
A few of these crimes are credit card fraud that shouldn’t actually count in neighborhood crime stats. Sadly one is mine, but it happened on vacation on the other side of the state, yet gets listed at my residence on the crime map.
You are correct, mostly. SeattleCrime.com has a better website than seattle.gov does. That said, the city DOES seem to be trying. There are glitches with the new city map/crimesite, but it does have useful things like stolen cars and car prowls. -Maple Leaf Life
SeattleCrime.com has had this capability for a long time and contains a lot more detail.
http://www.seattlecrime.com/911/map